End-board for wagons



(No Model.)

J. PARK.

END BOARD FOR WAGONS.

No. 248,498. Patented. Oct. 18,1881.

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ATTORNEYS.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

END-BOARD FOR WAGONS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 248,498, dated October 18, 1881.

Application filed August'l3,1881. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEREMIAH PARK, of Montandon, in the county of Northumberland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Wagon-Body Attachments; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,clear,and exact description ofthe same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a wagon-body with my improved attachment. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal section inthe line 0000 of Fig. 2.

My invention relates to improvements in wagon-body attachments; and it consists of an attachment or box provided with inclined sides of the same height as the wagon-body, and having a slide in its inclined bottom, which attachment can be secured to or removed from either end of the body, as desired, whereby the capacity of the wagon-body is increased withoutincreasing its height, and commoditiessuch as corn, fruit, vegetables, 850.- can more quickly be unloaded from the wagon by moving out the slide and letting the corn or other commodity fall through, thus allowing the bottom of the bed of corn or other commodity in the wagon to be more quickly reached for the action of the scoop or shovel than if picked out by hand from the wagonbody, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, a represents a wagon-body ot' the usual construction, provided with a staple, I), in each of its sides near its rear end.

0 represents my improved attachment, provided with inciined sides (I (I, each preferably of the form of a right-angled triangle the altitude of which is the height of the wagon-body.

The inclined bottom 6 of the attachment is provided with alongitudinal opening, g, preferably at its middle, in which reciprocates a slide, h, adapted to be slid back and forth in the opening. The inner ends of the longitudinal pieces composing the bottom of the attachment-and the inner end ofthe slide are beveled,

so as to form no obstruction where they meet the upper surface of the bottom of the wagonbody.

sides of the attachment, and adapted to engage with the staples b in the sides of the wagon-body, whereby the attachment can read ily be secured to or detached from the body,

to the front end of the body by removing the front board of the body.

By this construction it will be seen that the capacity of the wagon-body will be increased without increasing the height of the sides,

which increase in the height of the sides necessitates greater labor in loading the wagon.

The attachment also can be readily secured to and 'easily removed from a wagon-body, and by removing the slide the corn or other articles over the opening in the bottom of the attachment can readily be removed from the body, falling by gravity into a basket or other receptacle arranged to receive them.

Farmers, to unload corn, potatoes, 850., must pick out of the wagon bed or box at the end several bushels, in order to reach the bottom of the bed, before they can use the scoop, 011 account of the perpendicular end-board.

By my invention, it will be observed, much time and trouble are saved by withdrawing the slide and allowing the articles to fall through, and the bottom of the bed of corn, &c., to be reached at once by the scoop.

I claim as my invention- The combination, with a wagon-body, a, having staples b b in its sides, of the attachment 0, provided with inclined sides cl (1, having hooks k 70, bottom 0, having opening 9, and slide h, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

JEREMIAH PARK. Witnesses:

R. M. CUMMINGS, J osEPH PARDOE.

5 k k represent hooks pivotally secured to the 

